Your letters to the editor

The Ottawa Sun on March 16 revealed that 5,700 Quebec vehicles caught on camera running red lights in Ottawa were never mailed tickets.

The Province of Ontario gave the City of Ottawa the go-ahead to negotiate and establish needed access to the Quebec motor vehicle registry so tickets could be mailed to the owners of those licence plates. Somehow or another city staff have been unable to figure out how to establish electronic access to that registry.

Could it be that some of the assigned staff have a vested interest in being unable to establish that task as being too difficult to complete? The fox may very well be in the hen house. Perhaps the city should exclude any staff having residency in Quebec from the team charged with this “difficult” task they’ve been working on for months and months now.

Larry K. Stewart

Ottawa

(A bit too much of a conspiracy theorist for our taste. Competence, on the other hand ...)

NOT SO HARD

For goodness’ sake, you’d think we were talking about someone who could crack the code to get into the Kremlin.

I just saw a slack-jawed punk with his car windows rolled down blasting out “Born To Run”. This must be the first sign of Spring-steen...

Terry Toll

Campbell’s Bay

(Slack-jawed punks listen to Springsteen?)

WHAT LAWS?

For a newcomer to Ottawa, is there a short course or handy pamphlet for the interpretation of illegal activities permitted here? It is confusing for one to determine whether laws are being enforced.

I read that Ottawa is proposing that illegal immigrants are to be welcomed in Ottawa and protected from immigration authorities. Apparently, the proponents of this response to law-breaking are confident that no harm will come to residents, so Ottawa should declare itself a sanctuary for this type of criminal.

However, it appears that red-light runners from Quebec, detected by camera, must be caught and forced to pay the penalty for breaking the traffic laws when it’s obvious that if they were not involved in a collision when they went through the red light, there was no harm done. So why are they not forgiven and even celebrated, too?

Also there appears to be a concerted effort to set up a safe-injection site so illegal drug users can safely break the law in a comfortable and supportive environment, while the police raid marijuana dispensaries and arrest and charge the staff.

It would be helpful if the City of Ottawa would publish a list of laws that it will not enforce, then if drug pushers, robbers, and other criminals are to be ignored, we will be better prepared to deal with these situations.